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Sunday, 16 October 2016

Hunted: Ask the expert

Hunted is a TV show in which ten folk have to go on the run and stay hidden for 28 days. The
contestants are allowed to take anything they are able to carry and are granted
access to a bank account containing £300. They are being pursued by a crack
team of investigators who have all kinds of surveillance powers available to
them (including the ability to seize computers, hack email accounts and open mail).
Any contestants who can evade these ‘hunters’ for 28 days will win a share of £100,000. Apart
from being an entertaining programme, Hunted is a grim reminder of just how
much access the state has to your personal information and all of your
electronic communications. British citizens are the most observed people in the
western world and the average person is caught on CCTV around seventy (yes, 70)
times a day.

Two young
Londoners working together –Madu Alikor and Ayo Adesina- have been making life
difficult for the investigative team, so last week the hunters upped the ante. Dr
Donna Youngs is described as an ‘Investigative Psychologist’ and her job is to help
profile the lives of the fugitives, predicting how they might react under
pressure. On last week’s show, she interviewed the wife of one of the men. As she
built up her sophisticated psychological profiles, she unearthed some vital clues
to help the investigative team anticipate the next moves of the two fugitives.

Madu and
Ayo were good friends, said the wife, “But they argue a lot.” Dr Youngs then
reported back to the investigative team: “These men argue a lot” she said. “And
this is a relationship that is under stress.”

These
two men are on the run, being pursued by professional investigators who have
hacked their email accounts and their phones, interviewed their families and used social
media to offer financial rewards to any member of the public providing information
leading to a capture. The men are tired, hungry, sleeping in ditches and dreaming
about that £100,000 prize. Apart from this information and the statement from
the wife that 'they argue a lot', Dr Youngs had nothing on which to base her
remarkable observations.

Only someone
who has undertaken years of professional training could examine such flimsy
evidence, yet produce an insight which will surely lead the investigative team
to their prey.

1 comment:

These two men are on the run, being pursued by professional investigators who have hacked their email accounts and their phones

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